These Actual Spy Weapons Are Straight Out Of A Bond Movie

Newly crowned "Sexiest
Man Alive" Kim Jong Un isn't the biggest fan of Park
Sang-hak, an anti-Pyongyang defector now living in South Korea
who's near the top of North Korea's hit list.

The outspoken activist was recently the target of a would-be
assassin equipped with three seemingly innocent, easy-to-conceal
weapons plucked straight from a 007 script.

A South Korea "investigation official,"
speaking with CNN, described the weapons thus: A
poison-tipped device built to look like a Parker ballpoint pen; a
second pen equipped to shoot poison-filled bullets directly into
the skin; and a small flashlight rigged to fire three bullets at
close range.

Park is hardly the first to be the target of top-secret spy
weaponry. Here, eight other imaginative killing devices that have
actually been produced:

1. Lipstick gunMeet the "kiss
of death." This famous Cold War-era pistol may look like an
ordinary lipstick, but it was designed by KGB operatives to let a
Soviet femme fatale fire a single 4.5mm bullet at anyone unlucky
enough to get caught in her cross-hairs.

2. Exploding ratsDuring World War II,
Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) devised a clever
plan to blow up enemy boilers by hiding explosive rat carcasses
in
German coal piles.

Supposedly, an unsuspecting enemy would simply toss the dead rat
into the nearby fire to dispose of the body and... kaboom! The
plan went awry when German authorities seized the first
consignment of the devices — and went on to showcase them in the
country's top military academies.

3. Flamethrower glove
Patrick Priebe, a cyberpunk weapons hobbyist, designed this
hand-mounted
flamethrower using just four lithium ion batteries, butane, a
NE555 circuit board, and a transformer to spew fire right from
his palm.

4. Umbrella dart gun
Just one day before his 1978 death in London, Bulgarian dissident
writer Georgi Markov felt
a sharp prick in his thigh. He looked up to see a man
clumsily fiddling with an umbrella before speeding off. The
brolly had shot a dart loaded with a pellet of ricin, a
sophisticated poison.

The pellet was coated in a special wax designed to melt at body
temperatures, releasing the ricin into the bloodstream. The
shooter, believed to be a member of the Bulgarian secret police,
was never caught.

5. Exploding chocolate
Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not like the Nazis. And the
Nazis did not like Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as evidenced
by a letter written by a high-ranking World War II-era British
intelligence officer, referencing a bizarre Nazi assassination
plot to kill the boisterous politician with explosive chocolate.

"We have received information that the enemy are using pound
slabs of chocolate which are made of steel with a very thin cover
of chocolate,"
wrote Lord Victor Rothschild of British intelligence. "Inside
there is a high explosive and some form of delay mechanism."
Fortunately, British spies discovered the candy bombs, which were
to be placed around the War Cabinet's dining room, before anyone
could have a taste.

6. Pistol glove
Another product of the Cold War-era KGB, this glove-cum-pistol
could be fired with the twitch of a finger. "It gave the wearer
the ability to get within point blank range before firing a
lethal shot,"
says Buck Sexton at The Blaze. "Oddjob would be
proud."

7. Poisoned cigars
On August 16, 1960, a CIA official was handed a box of Fidel
Castro's favorite cigars… along with
instructions to rig them with a deadly poison. The cigars
were treated with a toxin called botulinum, reportedly so potent
it could kill any man who attempted to light one of the cigars.
Though the cigars were duly doctored, it's unclear if they ever
even made it into Castro's vicinity.

8. The CIA's heart-attack gun
During mid-1970s Senate testimony, it was revealed that the CIA
had developed a dart gun capable of causing a heart attack. The
dart — which could penetrate clothing, leave skin unmarked except
for a small red bump resembling a mosquito bite, and then
disintegrate — was filled with a deadly shellfish toxin. The
advantage,
says InfoWars, was that officials would attribute
the victim's death to natural causes in the event of an autopsy.
It's unclear if the heart attack gun was actually ever used.